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New auditorium opens at Lyons Middle/Senior High School LYONS – The new auditorium recently opened at Lyons Middle/Senior High School with its first performance, a middle school band concert, on Wednesday, December 8 and Mayor Nick Angelo was in attendance and gave the auditorium rave reviews. “Yes I did attend, the first performance was last Wednesday and it (the auditorium) is drop dead gorgeous and the acoustics are perfect and the stage is huge,” he said. The auditorium has its own entrance and ticket booth, so those who attend can park and enter the auditorium without going through the school. The original budget was $4.2 million but the school was able to use bond premiums, unused contingency funds and interest on bonds to raise the budget to $9.2 million, which nearly doubled the original amount the school had to work with. The auditorium is nearly 16,000 square feet; the new stage is 2,700 square feet and will be a real treat for dancers because the floor is dance quality, known as sprung. The design process began in September, 2019 before Covid and the community was surveyed to give input. Alan Ford Architects designed the space and Golden Triangle Construction did the work on the auditorium. Construction began in October, 2020. There is a sandstone plaza which can be used as an outdoor space for eating or for an outdoor classroom. There is seating for over 400 people and some of the front row seats are movable to create a type of orchestra pit. The funding included enough money so that students were able to purchase some power tools to create sets. The building includes blackout shades for windows. This is another success story for Lyons’ residents and students. The auditorium was badly needed since Lyons has limited space options for students to host performances, plays, musical events or shows. Now Lyons has a largestate-of-the-art auditorium that everyone can enjoy. Continue Briefs on Page 10
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The Coppom family of Lyons visited with Santa at the 2021 Lyons Holiday Artisan Market on December 4. Left to right are Simone, age 9; Zadie, age 6; and at Sants’s knee, Avett, age 2. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
Lyons Town Board discusses a dog killed at the dog park, gives SFC a slap on the wrist and other issues By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – At a recent town board meeting in December, Sgt. Bill Crist who is with Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept. told the board how pleased he was with the Christmas Parade. He said everything went well, everyone pulled together, the turnout was great and everyone seemed to be having a wonderful time. After a year of cancelling all events, people were ready to celebrate and enjoy the season. During the Board of Trustee reports, Trustee Hollie Rogin reported that 74 percent of Lyons residents said that tourism was good for Lyons, based on a recent survey. Trustee Mark Browning told the board about a more disturbing issue, saying that it was brought to his attention that the Sustainable Futures Commission (SFC) sent a position statement letter to a state agency on Town of Lyons letterhead stationary, on behalf of the Town of Lyons. The SFC is an advisory group to the Lyons Town Board. Trustee Browning said he believes that it is inappropriate for any advisory boards and commissions to take a position on something in the name of the Town of Lyons and that only the town board can do that. Town Attorney Brandon Dittman said, “I can’t tell you how disconcerting that is to hear boards or commissions making policy statements.” He went on to say he would highly support a workshop with the boards and commissions to reinforce what their role is with the town. He said he was not aware of this issue until Trustee Browning stated it in his report. He said boards and commissions
should not be taking positions on behalf of the town and, “they are not authorized to do that, only the town board may do that.” Trustee Browning went on to suggest that the town board have a future agenda item to discuss what the Sustainable Futures Commission did and to give general direction to all boards and commissions about taking policy positions on behalf of the town. He added that the town board also needs to discuss openmeeting laws with board and commissions. He also referred to the issue of boards and commissions sending out group emails outside of the meetings. “You can’t do it,” he said, adding that the town board can’t do it and this is where lawsuits get filed. In other matters, Trustee Greg Lowell told the board that in a tragic event, a small dog was attacked and killed by a large dog at the dog park. The owner of the small dog had just entered the dog park in Lyons; the small dog was on a leash when a large dog, a Malamute mix, charged the small dog and killed it. Trustee Lowell said animal control was notified immediately and the animal control officer said the large dog could be put down but the owner of the small dog declined to use that option. The owner of the small dog is a Lyons resident and the owner of the large dog is from Longmont. Lowell said he was under the impression that the dog park was only for local residents and those in the area with Lyons addresses. “The dog park has become increasingly dangerous for small-breed dogs and this is not the first time this (an incident) has happened there,” said Lowell. “This is a serious problem and one that we need to deal with.”
Trustee Lowell said that he wants to see some sort of signage or warnings to notify people until the board can parcel off an area for small dogs. The town board took the matter seriously and discussed creating a separate area of the dog park that is for small dogs only. The board went on to discuss a request by developer Paul Tamburello and his assistant Rene Doubleday to remove the requirement for submitting the PUD (planned unit development) for his proposed subdivision on Ute Highway on the eastern corridor of Lyons. The time for submittal of the PUD was already extended once due to delays and circumstances around Covid. Tamburello said he did not want to keep coming back to the board with an arbitrary date to submit the PUD. He said that they were working continuously on the PUD and requested that the board remove the requirement for submitting the PUD. He also gave some examples of work that they have been doing such as they submitted a traffic study to Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) as well as several other things that they accomplished. The board agreed with Tamburello and instructed Attorney Brandon Dittman to draw up and ordinance to waive the PUD requirement altogether. No date for a vote on that ordinance has been set. Summit Housing Group closed on its financing November 23, has paid its outstanding fees and utility tap fees for the project and is now preparing the performance bond and finalizing building permit fees before proceeding with non-public improvements. Summit planned Continue Town on Page 12
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Happy Holidays everyone By Nick Angelo, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – Nothing has been more joyous to experience than the inaugural musical performances at the new Lyons Middle/Senior High School Auditorium. After having experienced the original cafetorium Angelo and gym artistic performances, we should be ecstatic that the students finally have a facility to match their talents. It is stunning, comfortable, and an acoustically perfect facility, a dream come true. Please be careful through the holiday season, Covid is still spreading. If you haven’t been vaccinated by now, there’s not much more I can say, except to maybe reconsider. The technology regarding needles has made the experience much more painless and faster. The budget process is nearly complete. There are substantial allocations for street repairs, a continued need, and fire mitigation, an issue that has become the forefront of concern recently. Business is good, receipts continue to rise. The Honeywell lawsuit is ongoing, as what was to be expected. It remains to be seen if what was promised is what was delivered. Not a time to discuss litigation fur-
ther, mentioned because the expense may be substantial. It is incumbent we prepare for any eventuality. The Summit affordable housing group submitted the requisite remuneration to meet enterprise fund requirements. We will begin to see onsite development progress shortly. Downtown continues to percolate, with many projects scheduled to begin next year. There are continual discussions with staff about additional ideas and project possibilities. The eastern corridor development is progressing, although slower than anticipated. The Board of Trustees granted relief to the developer regarding time constraints, financial obligations and submittal requirements. We feel very strongly that the developer is pursuing a development that will be outstanding in every manner. The Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska, MEAN, had a meeting that Utility and Engineering Board Chairman Jim Kerr and I attended. It was quite informa-
tive as it was my first meeting concerning our electric provider. It was essential in light of the successful solar garden vote to learn more about that subject and the many others associated with being supplied electricity. We have been placed on a priority list to be provided renewable energy as it becomes available from MEAN to its customers. Addressing electric vehicle energy consumption is an issue that will soon be at the forefront of the need for creative and technological answers and alternatives to our current situation, period. Can we produce enough wind energy and solar energy to offset the energy consumption of millions of electric vehicles? The infrastructure must be upgraded, both here in Lyons and nationwide to accommodate the additional load on the electrical grid system. The issue has 1000 moving parts. It would be preferable just to talk about how beautiful the lights are in Sandstone Park. The resource of light with the power to spread joy, it’s beautiful. The safe routes to school project/the Fourth Ave. bridge will begin construction shortly. It’s going to be a beautiful walk from downtown to the park and having that loop accessible again. Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season, health and happiness in the future. Nick Angelo became a Lyons Trustee in 1996 and won his first term as Mayor in 1998. His current term as Mayor began in April, 2020. He and his wife Candace, a local artist, live in Lyons.
Lyons Community Church wishes a Happy Advent and Merry Christmas for all
LYONS – Join us for worship in person at 10 a.m. December 19 for the theme of Love at the Lyons Community Church at 350 Main St.
Blue Christmas service is for those who have lost a loved one this year. It will be at 5:30 p.m. on December 19 at the Lyons Church. We welcome a wonderful choral group and hope you will attend our candlelight service at 5:30 p.m. We welcome you to attend our new first Sunday evening service whenever it works for you. We are meeting at 4 p.m. the first Sunday of each month. The service features great music and a welcome to all. We
Allenspark Community Church invites all to its Christmas Service ALLENSPARK – The Allenspark Community Church wishes all of you a very blessed Christmas and looks forward to seeing you at any or all of the services of the Christmas season.
ask that everyone wear a mask during this time. We are so grateful for all your support this year. We are also glad to continue to support our Lyons community. Although we have faced many limitations due to Covid we have been blessed to see what really matters. Happy New Year. Grace and peace, Pastor Emily Hagan (she, her, hers) First UMC of Lafayette
The log church, located at 16 Washington St. in Allenspark across from the U.S. Post Office, will be decorated with garlands representing the love and peace of Christ, sparkling lights symbolizing Christ as the light of the world, and red poinsettias whose leaves are thought to be a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem. Advent services will continue on December 19 at 10 a.m. The Christmas Eve service on December 24 will include the lighting of the fifth Advent candle, signifying the birth of Christ. Face masks are mandatory at all services. At 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Pastor Ralph Patrick will lead us in “Lessons and Carols of the Season” which will include singing favorite hymns, telling the story of Christ’s birth through scriptures, and special music by the church choir and organist, Don Shelley.
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LYONS New hotel submitting plans to town By Ken Singer Redstone Review LYONS – The new Lyons Hotel is preparing for demolition of Ferg’s Inn as early as next week and the owners are submitting plans to the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) perhaps next month. If the PCDC approves the plans, they will likely go to the Board of Trustees in February, but Johnson said she thought that the submittal could go before the town
board as early as January. The owners of Moss Rock Development, Edna Johnson and Agnes Rey-Giraud, held an initial presentation last month at the town Library with dozens of town residents present. At a meeting on December 7 with the Redstone Review, Johnson and planning consultant Rosi Dennett clarified some of the questions that had been circulating on social media. Dennett was the Lyons town planner from 2004-2008 and served as coordinator for town buyout properties after the flood of
Artist’s rendering of the proposed hotel. This view is looking southeast from Main and 4th.
2013. In terms of the proposed hotel’s number of rooms, Johnson stated that this is a “boutique hotel” which is defined as small. They determined that 79 rooms would suffice to make it potentially profitable. Acquisition of the property alone cost $1.35 million. The asbestos removal, risk mitigation, demolition, added substantially more to the cost. Town regulations for parking requires one spot for each room. On-site parking is limited to 25 spaces and they are still negotiated for another 24 spots in the vacant land south of the Lyons Fire District building. The Broadway redesign that was already in process would add more parking with 30 more spaces adjacent to the building which would complete the requisite number of spaces. Add to that some valet parking, which means the hotel could accommodate almost 50 spaces, at busy times and Johnson did not envision problems with spaces. Some water taps come with the buildings to be demolished. The owners have
acquired additional water taps. Moss Rock will submit water plans with the Utilities and Engineering Board (UEB) soon. As far as aesthetics go, the town limits buildings to 40 feet high and their plans are within that size. There has been some criticism about the use of red brick on the exterior and Johnson noted that there will be sandstone accents but to face the building with red stone would have been prohibitively expensive. “We’re trying to honor the sandstone history” of the town, Johnson said. Ferg’s Inn and adjacent buildings had asbestos that had to be removed and that was done over the past several months. Johnson said, “There was asbestos in the vegetable stand, the hotel and the log house.” Regarding the question of whether there was anything of historical value in the building (which is not original to the site), Johnson stated that, “The building had been altered many times, most recently by the previous owner. Two architects and a Continue Hotel on Page 13
Shop Small, Shop Lyons – Local businesses need your help to survive By Kim Mitchell Redstone Review LYONS – Sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business Saturday, which encourages residents to shop locally and support local businesses. The Saturday after Thanksgiving is marketed and promoted as all about shopping small and going big at locally owned businesses, like ours in Lyons, and supporting them. But what if we tried as a community to shop small, shop local, eat local, and support the local businesses in Lyons all year long? It would make an impact beyond small business Saturday and our small businesses would surely agree that it’s important to shop small all year round. Locally owned, independent small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy and also the heartbeat of our local business district. Like many of us, these businesses have experienced unprecedented challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Those challenges combined with workforce shortages, labor market issues, and supply-chain disruptions have made quite an impact. Our small businesses still need us to show up and support them as we navigate the road to full economic recovery. Why is shopping locally so helpful? Think of it as a ripple effect that begins the moment a retail transaction is complete. The business owner who sold the item keeps some of the funds and uses a significant portion to pay staff. Many of those staff members then go to local stores and/or restaurants to buy their items, celebrate a birthday, pick up lunch, and so on. The waves from the initial “pebble” ripple
outward in all sorts of ways that help uplift our community. Of course, it’s easy to turn to the internet for many items, but how does that transaction ensure that our local businesses will be here when you want them to be, when you want to celebrate your anniversary, a child’s success or grab something to thank a neighbor? What if we all made a conscious decision this year to support our local businesses more consciously? Think of the ripple effect that we each would contribute and how much that would benefit our community. Lyons is lucky to have such unique local offerings, but they always appreciate more local support, especially as we head into the quiet lull of the winter months. Be sure to pop in, say hello and see what is new. Make a connection. Meet a friend in Lyons for lunch, coffee, dinner or retail therapy, mid-week too if you can. It’s the need for human connection that draws us into businesses, restaurants, retailers, shops and more. Continue the momentum beyond small business Saturday. Let’s get offline and make a difference in our community. While we often highlight the importance of shopping locally during the holidays, let’s remember to shop locally throughout the year and recognize the big impact it makes. By shopping small and locally, you’re showing your support for the businesses in your backyard as well as the community we all know and love. Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Town of Lyons. She has called Lyons home since 2009.
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OPTIONS Lyons Community Library now offers free rapid Covid-19 test kits to residents By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Library is now offering free, self-administered rapid tests for Covid-19. Community members can pick up an Abbott BinaxNOW take-home kit during Bauman normal operating hours. The supply of tests is limited and variable and tests are available on a first come, first served basis. Individuals are also able to request test kits for personal use through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment by visiting covid19.colorado.gov/covid-19-testing-at-home. The library is proud to offer this service to our community as the weather changes and people head indoors, travel and gather for the holidays, and return to their pre-pandemic lifestyles. In addition to distributing rapid tests for Covid-19, the library also invites the community to save the date for a free vaccination clinic hosted by CDPHE on Friday, January 7 between noon and 6 p.m. at the Lyons Community Library. The clinic will primarily offer pediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine. As the pediatric vaccination is a two-dose vaccine, attendees of the first clinic will be invited to a private clinic three weeks later to receive the second dose. A link to register youth ages 5 to 11 is available now on the library’s website. Boosters for those adults who are already fully vaccinated and at least six months out from their last dose will be available as supplies last. Youth Services Librarian Becki Loughlin is taking a short storytime break through the end of the year. The next session of storytimes resumes the week of January 11 and will run for eight weeks through March 2.
Happy Holidays from LEAF By Lory Barton Redstone Review LYONS – We at LEAF, Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund, are so appreciative of all the support and good will we have received from the community throughout 2021. Because of the commuBarton nity’s support, LEAF has served hundreds of people in the community in 2021. We were thrilled to take part in this year’s holiday parade. Our board members Tommy Holley, Skye McDonald, and Regan Bullers, along with their families and friends, created a fabulous float. When we experienced a bit of an electrical emergency, Lyons Fire Protection District team members saved the day by hooking up their generator to our many strands of holiday lights. Thank you, fire fighters. Once we were road-worthy again, our team was ready to go.
The Lyons Community Library staff enjoyed their first Parade of Lights. Left to right: Kara Bauman, Becki Loughlin, Steve Noud, Carolyn Vierthaler, B.J. Campbell, Jenny Abernathy, Dana Petersen Storytimes geared toward babies and their caregivers are on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. and all-ages storytimes followed by a craft are on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Please make sure to check our website and social media channels for any announcements should it become necessary to cancel a storytime or move the session online with a take-andmake craft option. Teens and tweens in grades 6 through 12 are invited to recreate the popular television show, Nailed It, with a wacky gingerbread-house-building contest on Friday, December 17 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. All materials will be proSeveral second graders from Lyons Elementary School walked the parade route with us, and they passed out pounds and pounds of candy to parade attendees. Many of our board members and volunteers joined us, too. Afterwards, LEAF was proud to receive an award from the town in the “other” float category. The holiday parade was a cheerful way to celebrate the holiday season, indeed. On Wednesday, December 15, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., LEAF will host our annual Super Duper Holiday Pantry. Pantry guests will receive extra-special holiday food and other seasonal surprises. Volunteers from CEMEX will join our usual teams, helping to load and carry food and supplies for our pantry guests inside. The Super Duper Food Pantry is a much-anticipated day. The LEAF team pulls out all the stops to bestow holiday happiness on our weekly pantry guests. Please note:, the Food Pantry will be closed the following two weeks, December 22 and December 29. We’ll look forward to seeing everyone again in the new year. As the Super Duper Pantry happens inside on WednesContinue LEAF on Page 13
vided and prizes will be awarded to the best (or worst?) gingerbread house as judged by library staff. Registration is required and available through our website. Youth from ages 8 to 17 are invited to drop by the library’s Community Room on Thursday, December 30 between 3 and 7 p.m. for an afternoon of science and technology exploration. There will be both low- and hightech coding activities as well an opportunity to explore a selection of our many STEM kits available for checkout. Make sure you are stocked up with all the books and family-favorite movies you might need ahead of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The library will be closed to the public on Friday, December 24, and Saturday, December 25, and will reopen at 10 a.m. on Monday, December 27. Additionally, the library will be closed on Friday, December 31 and on Saturday, January 1, and will reopen at 10 a.m. on Monday, January 3. The library staff wishes each and every one of our community members a safe and healthy holiday season. We loved seeing so many cheering faces as we participated in our first Parade of Lights. The Lyons Community Library opens Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. The library closes at 5 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays; and 2 p.m. on Saturdays. An online catalog is available 24/7 at lyons.colibraries.org and they’re always open for digital downloads on both the OverDrive/Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give them a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonslibrary.com with any questions. Registration for all events and programs is available via the website. Kara Bauman is the Director of the Lyons Community Library and holds an MLIS from the University of Kentucky.
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OPPORTUNITY Important Medicare information By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – Are you on Medicare, or about to sign up? Do you like to travel, are you planning on having a surgery or do you Muldoon have chronic health problems, are you healthy and rarely see a doctor? All of these are good questions to ask yourself when choosing the best coverage for your individual needs. I am not an insurance expert by any means, but in our clinic, when the majority of patients on some sort of Medicare Plan ask us questions regarding their insurance, one realizes, it must not be easy understanding these plans. Thanks to a good friend and fellow doctor we have come up with some guidelines and pearls to help decipher Medicare. • Medicare is not free. If you have worked the allotted number of hours during your work life Medicare Part A is no charge to you but Medicare Part B has a monthly charge. Medicare has an initial enrollment period. This time frame is three months before your 65th birthday and three months after your 65th birthday. If you don’t sign up in time you’ll be penalized monthly for the rest of your life and you’ll be delayed coverage. Do not miss this date. If you are taking Social Security benefits already, you’ll be automatically signed up for Medicare, but if not you have to sign up yourself. You can sign up for Medicare Part A and B on ss.gov but you need to sign up with a broker or private insurance
company to sign up for Medicare Part C and Part D. • Medicare consists of two different plans: Each has its pros and cons. Original Medicare (OM) covers more doctors, specialist and hospitals. The patient can decide who they want to see and can see providers in another state with no preauthorization. In this plan, Medicare pays the provider directly, 80 percent, and then the remainder 20 percent is typically provided by the supplement or secondary insurance. If you do not have a supplement or secondary, then you are responsible for the remainder 20 percent. For physical, speech and occupational therapy, there is a cap of around $3,200 per year which runs between 25 to 30 visits in our clinics. This coverage is ample for surgeries (total knees, hips, shoulders), strokes, and cardio therapy after heart surgeries, heart attacks or other cardiovascular incidents. For any therapy benefit a referral is needed from a medical doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant. This program is good for those who travel through the U.S. frequently, have a second home in another state and those who like to be in control of their healthcare. Medicare Advantage: This is more like a HMO plan. A larger insurance company like Aetna, Humana or United Healthcare, take over your original Medicare benefits, and then manage your new plan (the Advantage Plan). These plans do provide more coverage than the OM, like possible gym memberships, hearing aids, eye or dental coverage to name a few. But you must stay within their network providers and not all clinics / doctors
choose to take these plans. For therapy benefits (physical, occupational and speech) there is a copay at each visit, the average being around $35 per visit. Thus, if you need therapy after a procedure or injury, 10 visits will cost $350. The coverage of these plans is typically around 20 visits a year. A referral is also needed by a medical doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant. These plans are marketed almost everywhere; TV, radio and internet ads are continuous, and they have no problem calling you at home. How do these plans pay providers and how do they finance their additional coverage? When you sign up with one of these programs, the federal government pays them a lump sum to provide all your care. If you are not one that seeks out medical assistance often, then these plans have just made a lot of money, doing nothing. If you have chronic back issues, diabetes or other medical problems, to save money, these plans limit your coverage and have an out-of-pocket cap as high as $11,000. Thus,
most individuals with chronic medical needs tend to leave these programs and switch back to OM. These Advantage plans tend to pay the providers 50 percent of what OM reimburses, and most require preauthorization before treatment can start. Deciding on which plan suits your health needs is not an easy task. For further information, please read 10 Costly Medicare Mistakes by D. Roberts; go to medicare.gov/talk-to-someone or call 800MEDICARE. Good luck on determining which plan is right for you and stay healthy. Bronwyn Muldoon, a licensed physical therapist, owns Lyons Physical Therapy, 435 High St. in Lyons. Some of the things addressed at her clinic include but are not limited to: acute and chronic spinal pain (back and neck pain), postural dysfunction alignment, sports and performance-related injuries, repetitive/overuse-related injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, muscles strains and sprains, and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. For more information call 303-823-8813.
A week before Christmas, 131 years ago, the local paper prints a letter from Santa, tells of a typhoid outbreak and tries to incorporate By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review LYONS – The town of Lyons was barely nine years old when the December 19, 1890 edition of the Longs Peak Rustler newspaper was published. This was the Sawyer-Lang newspaper’s second week of printing the news of the town. The newspaper’s editor, Ben Durr, reflected on how things were changing. “Four years ago, where Lyons now stands, the ground was sowed in wheat by E.S. Lyon. It was harvested by Geo. VanBergen, Wm. Grifith, Wm. Sosey and W.P. Flanders, the town site agent. He (Flanders) says he drank a dam site while the boys did the harvesting. The crop was middling good taken all around.” Various articles in that week’s edition point to the many concerns of its residents and the growing pains of a new town. A recent outbreak of typhus, due to residents using contaminated water from the St. Vrain River, appears to be the call to action that put its residents on the path to making the town a livable place with amenities such as clean water, a church, and a bank. “It seems that our water works matters have crystallized down to the single point of a question of incorporation. Incorporate, and we get pure water.” “We want our town supplied with every advantage which will make it a good home for the people who seek this busy place. Among such advantages is that of a nice church. A project is on foot now to put up a beautiful stone building which will be counted by all as an honor to us.” “A bank would be in our opinion a helpful institution to Lyons. The banking business now done by our business men could be transacted at one place in a more satisfactory manner ... A meeting to this effect should be agitated at once and the matter discussed by those most interested.” Building a town is not easy and even already established institutions had to start to play by the rules.
Thomas Nast’s 1881 illustration showed Santa reading letters from children. “We hear that the Post office must be moved off the depot grounds on account of a clause in the deed from Putnam, which expressly prohibits the grounds from being used for any purpose except Rail Road business. Now is the time for Mr. Lyon to do a good thing, by putting the office in the business centre of town.” As a result of this call to action in 1890, the town of Lyons was incorporated on April 6, 1891 and elected its first town council, and mayor, J.M. Hews. Soon after, the process of installing water lines and pro-
viding a source of clean water to the town began. A few items took a bit longer to come to fruition with the Stone Church on the corner of Fourth and High Street being completed in 1894. In 1892 the town saw the opening of a bank by E.E. Norton, believed to be located on Fifth Avenue south of the present Town Hall. It was short-lived and closed after the flood of 1894. In 1903, George Stickney opened the Bank of Lyons on Main Street. The post office moved several times over the years between High Street and Main Street taking up residence in different buildings before getting its own building on High Street in 1961. That building is now the current location of the Lyons Veterinary Clinic. On a lighter note, the focus of the local business merchants was on the upcoming Christmas holiday, many making bold statements about their businesses and wares in their advertisements. The Morey & Warner store’s advertisement stated, “We claim to have the finest line of nice goods ever shown in Lyons.” Charles Bradford, a dealer in “Fine Whiskies, Wines, Cigars and Imported Beers” stated, “A first-class bar is kept, at which is to be had anything a man wants.” Two businesses, Thorne & Lavridson and Scanlon & Brice, both claimed to be the headquarters of Santa Claus. Scanlon & Brice backed up their claim with a letter from the man himself. “DEC. 10, 1890. Messrs. SCANLON & BRICE, GENTS: I will be at your Store during Christmas Week, and make it my Headquarters. Tell all boys and girls. Yours Truly, SANTA CLAUS.” Apparently, Santa Claus’s wife had her own schedule and headquarters in town. “OLD MRS. SANTA CLAUS, will, in spite of her rheumatism, be at Morey & Warner’s this and next week, with a cartload of HER THINGS for the young folks.” The Lyons Redstone Museum relies on grants and donations to fund its operations. If you would like to support the Lyons Historical Society and the museum, your tax-deductible donations are greatly appreciated and can be mailed to Lyons Historical Society, PO Box 9, Lyons, CO 80540.
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INSIGHT You have the right to your own opinion, but not your own facts By John Gierach Redstone Review
us are able to do is choose our sources carefully – based on reputation and past performance – and then have some provisional faith in them. I find my benchmark in print journalists from publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Atlantic Magazine and others that have been around forever and have reputations as spotless as it’s possible to have when you presume to write the first draft of history. That is, journalism that goes to great lengths to get the facts right and when
clearly marked as editorials, but the facts those opinions are based on should be verifiable and conform to objective reality. Or as Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “You have LYONS – I recently had lunch with an a right to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” old friend that I seldom see because we That’s where it’s all started to fall apart over the last few live on opposite sides of the state and decades. Some news outlets do now reserve the right to both have busy, time-consuming lives – their own facts, while others use verifiable information, although in my case being busy doesn’t but pick and choose to bolster a preconceived conclusion. Gierach always result in actually getting things It’s called “advocacy journalism,” which is a misnomer bedone. I look forward to these visits because of cause it’s actually not journalism at all. the quality of the conversation. My friend is an The tricks are easy to spot if you pay attention. analytical thinker with an intimate, working The anchors often seem to be on the verge of knowledge of subjects as diverse as horse wranhysteria; still photos of opposition figures are ingling, geology, audio publishing, elk hunting variably the ones where they’re caught with their and religious studies and after talking with him eyes blank or the their mouths open so they look for a few hours I always come away feeling stupid, while those on the preferred side always slightly less certain of what I believe, but also look dignified and statesmanlike; the experts insomehow smarter. terviewed tend to agree with the party line and This time the talk veered briefly into episteif not, they’re usually just there to be set up for mology: the study of the nature and limits of ridicule and film clips of opposition figures knowledge. Of course, the ultimate philosophispeaking often end awkwardly in mid-sentence cal question is, “Why is there something instead because if they were put in context they wouldn’t of nothing?” but the next head-scratcher on the look quite so bad. list is “What is knowledge and is it attainable?” The easiest tricks to detect are the stories in When the subject comes up I always flash back which opposing figures are openly and gleefully parto Rene Descartes, the French philosopher who odied. The hardest are the ones that begin as doubted everything, but reasoned that if there straight reporting and end as opinion pieces, so that was doubt, then there must be someone who did if you’re not carefully parsing what’s being said, the doubting, so at least that someone existed those opinions can seem like statements of fact. and that became his starting point. Cogito ergo The few times I’ve watched Fox News they’ve sum – I think, therefore I am. seemed clumsy and transparent, with unverified He once conducted a famous experiment. facts and so-called experts you wouldn’t buy a While sitting in the balcony of a lecture hall used car from. with three chandeliers hanging from the ceiling MSNBC is better. Their experts are legit for in front of him in a straight line, he could see the most part and their facts are verifiable, even that, because of perspective, the one closest to if they’re sometimes edited to achieve the dehim looked larger, the next one smaller and the sired effect. one farthest away smaller still, while logic sugThe network news shows are the most objecgested they were all the same size. So he got a tive, but with 30 minutes per night, minus comjanitor to climb up a tall ladder and measure mercials and the obligatory heart-warming them and they did all turn out to be the same human interest story at the end, they’re not size, as he suspected. To those who ask “Why bother with newspapers when all that stuff is on much more than a list of headlines. Few of us ever go to that kind of trouble, but TV anyway?” I’ll simply say that without old-school ink-stained wretches, CNN is probably the best. They showed great when there’s a discrepancy, we still resort to the that stuff wouldn’t be on TV. promise in the beginning and being on 24 hours a equivalent of measuring the chandeliers whenever day gives them all the time they’d need to go into possible. Case in point: the little weather readout great depth and detail, but all they ever do is hamat the bottom of my computer screen says it’s currently 51 they’re occasionally wrong, fesses up publicly and makes mer the same handful of headlines over and over without degrees and sunny out, but I can see it’s cloudy without get- the corrections. even getting much below the surface. ting up from my desk and when I went out to look at the That’s why cable news relies so heavily on print journalBut if you pay attention to what you’re seeing, hearthermometer just a minute ago, I saw that it’s more like 40 ists for their stories and interviews them so often. To those ing and reading, I think it’s still possible to piece together degrees. That settles it for me: the computer is wrong. who ask “Why bother with newspapers when all that stuff a version of current events that is no doubt incomplete, It’s not so easy when it comes to the things we hear on is on TV anyway?” I’ll simply say that without old-school but not entirely inaccurate. You just have to make a habit the news – or what passes for news among some. As much ink-stained wretches, that stuff wouldn’t be on TV. of asking yourself the central question of epistemology: as we’d like to double check this stuff for ourselves, we Anyway, that’s how journalism is supposed to work: You What do I think I know and why do I think I know it? don’t have the time or the resources, so the best most of can disagree with the opinions stated in what should be
The thing about fairness, it’s not complicated By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – Human Resources denied me health insurance for 2022. They said it was my fault that I did not know something I had never been told, and had been given no chance to learn. I am a long-term Jane temp and we do not get an orientation when we are hired. Human Resources declared that “it would not be fair” to give health insurance to me when others who had not made the cutoff – who were permanent employees and did know about it – could not get it. My boss and my boss’s boss both think this is ridiculous and, well, unfair, but HR is adamant. So, I am out a couple thousand bucks for next year. This does not feel fair to me. I am even angry about it. But it got me thinking: what is fair? Think about little kids. They will pout “That’s not fair.” when what they mean is “I don’t like that,” or “I feel left out.” But sometimes when they say it, they mean that what is happening really is unfair: it is inequitable and unjust. Researchers have found that children from what are called WEIRD societies – Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (great acronym) – have a deep sense of fairness at about age eight, at least when it comes
to candy treats. It seems to me that this dissipates with age. I live my extremely unfair life contentedly, thinking perhaps a few times a week about how unfair it is that I have so much when so many in the world have so little. I deplore what has brought us here, but it does not change my lifestyle much. It seems that the thing about fairness is that it is only possible on a micro level. Between you and me, we can usually work out something fair. But the larger world is essentially unfair. Some people are born physically strong and whole, others are born feeble and ill. That is not just. Some people live in areas with fertile soil and flowing rivers while others live in windy deserts. That is not equitable. Reading about fairness, I have learned that many animal species – primates, rats, dogs, corvids – demonstrate an awareness of when they are being cheated. Our perception of fairness varies, depending upon situations, and from culture to culture. Fairness is related to justice, but it is not the same as justice. It has a relationship to morality that ethicists clearly enjoy arguing about, but it is not morality. Fairness may be hard to define, but it is easy to feel. It is like Supreme Court Justice Stewart’s famous quote about pornography: “I know it when I see it.” Think about the last time you had that “That’s not fair!” reaction. It is a feeling that we recognize, not a rational thought. We can
perhaps come up with a reason: “You took all the cookies,” but that in and of itself is not the importance of fairness. I think fairness is essentially about connection. At its base, fairness is the recognition that we are all the same. We recognize instinctively that all beings, not just human beings, want the same things: food, safety, whatever we experience as love. From this recognition much of what is good in this world comes. It seems that as we get older it is easy forget that. We start to pay less attention to the massive inequities that surround us. We forget how others are just the same as we are and focus on how they are different from us. We move away from feeling connected to everybody and everything, and instead focus on our separateness. Even though I have never been a Christian, one of the Continue Fairness on Page 12
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Parade of Lights
Ann Hall and Jacob Leeuwenburg always make the coolest floats. This year’s Luminaria needed help up a few hills after a tiny mishap while waiting in line for the parade to begin. Thank you Ann and Jacob for your courage to continue with your wobbly top hat, smashed golf cart with snowflakes. (This same duet has an art show at the library in January so be on the lookout for that.) Freedom Ranch’s float was shaking with exuberance, offering a first time experience for young people to participate. Jean-Pierre my 13-year-old grandson was one of them and he and his buddies gave out candy after having been the one receiving candy all these years. Such a big smile. I love our town. When the call went out that we didn’t have enough participants for the parade, so many people joined in and some for the first time. Perhaps what we are experiencing is akin to what our great grandparents felt when the great depression was over. It was a time to celebrate.
CORNERSTONE Missing tree By Sally King Redstone Review This Thanksgiving we shared a meal (in a manner of speaking) with an invisible indigenous presence. We awoke on Thanksgiving morning and noticed that our large willow tree was gone, a tree we had planted after the flood of 2013. Fast growing, it was a large tree at least 25 feet and it was gone whittled down to a point all the branches gone. We have a beaver. Now what? I reached out to our immediate neighbors in case they had trees that they wanted to protect. And calling folks on Thanksgiving felt old school. Did we used to do this kind of thing more? Later that morning we found the beaver’s lodge the river bottom littered, with pale sticks peeled of their bark the food of beaver. It’s thrilling to have a wild creature decide to move in close by. I can feel his / her influence. The beaver is a builder making sure to have many entrances and exits. “If we eliminate our alternatives we dam the flow of experience in our lives.”
By Sally King Redstone Review Wasn’t the Parade of Lights fun this year? We are not taking things like the parade for granted anymore, since we didn’t get to have a parade last year and this one came close to not happening. King There was true appreciation and joy as we waited for the fire truck to blast its horn, making us cover our ears. There were lots of gaps between floats like missing teeth, put the tooth under your pillow and make a wish. Here come polar bears, leaping and butting tummies. Mayama’s Dancing Lights of the Arctic, the green winged ones performing with their small white-costumed friends, so delightful, we felt their magic. Thank you Mayama and congratulations on being this year’s winner.
Sally King is a local artist who has created whimsical bears and delightful wild flower acrylic paintings to enhance the appearance of Lyons all over the town. She lives with her husband John King, a kinetic sculptor artist, near Lyons.
Help for seniors for electric bills, info and applications for affordable housing in Longmont By Lisa Ramsey Redstone Review LYONS – Some seniors have reached out with questions about whether Lyons plans to host a booster vaccine clinic. At this time Boulder County does not have any plans for one. Booster shots are widely available in Longmont, Boulder, and Estes Park. For more information about Covid-19 booster vaccine locations visit https://www.bouldercounty.org/families/disease/covid-19-information/covid-19-vaccine-information/vaccines/. If anyone needs help with energy and/or water bills this season help is available from LEAP, visit https://cdhs.colorado.gov/leap.
While we certainly want everyone to stay in Lyons, we understand the need for affordable housing: as of December14, Boulder County Housing Authority is accepting applications for The Spoke on Coffman (below-market-rate rentals in Longmont) as well as Housing Choice Vouchers and Project Based Vouchers. Visit www.waitlistcheck.com/CO3024 for more information. Sign up for the interest list for the Spoke on Coffman to ensure you receive communications from us regarding the application process at www.TheSpokeOnCoffman.org. We will also be celebrating the upcoming holidays at our gathering at Walt Self on Thursday, December 16 at 12:30 pm. We will have some sweet treats and KC Groves and a friend will perform. Sign up for the holiday lunch offered through the Redstone Café at noon. Call a day before to request a lunch. For more information, call Lisa Ramsey at the Lyons Town Hal, 303-8236622 extension 30, or email at lramsey@townoflyons.com. Lisa Ramsey is the Town of Lyons Parks & Rec Coordinator.
Mayama returns to its roots with a familiar name By Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok Redstone Review LYONS – We (Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok) have decided to return to our roots and the name Mayama. We had a small fling with the name Defined Motion, but now understand that we are and have always been Mayama. Some of you may be confused and others purely relieved that you don’t have to keep fumbling around with our name. For us, it’s a coming home and it feels aligned. Allison Bozeman Lawhon of BirdDog Partners has been working with us coming up with a new fresh look and feel for Mayama that we are super excited about. She also helped us find our way back to Mayama and we are grate-
ful for her coaching, keen eye and creative flare. So here’s to many more years of dance, wellness, and community under the Mayama name where we truly desire to provide movement medicine to this community. We hope you all find a welcoming place here at Mayama. May or Mei in Chinese means beautiful and yama in Japanese means mountain, so Mayama is Beautiful Mountain. Welcome back to Mayama, Beautiful Mountain Movement Studio. Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok are the owners of Mayama Dance Studio formerly known as Defined Motion Dance Studio. The studio can be reached at 720-245-5448 and definedmotiondance.com.
Lyons Community Foundation 2022 college scholarships are available By Josie Wratten Redstone Review “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) is pleased to announce that six college scholarships are available to graduating high school students from the greater Lyons area. Applications are available online at https://www.lyonscf.org/scholarship-information.html or from the Lyons Naviance Scholarship site. Below is a brief description of each scholarship; please refer to LCF Scholarship list for complete information about eligibility and submission requirements. 2022 Lyons Community Foundation Mission Scholarship. One $2000 scholarship offered by the Lyons Community Foundation will recognize any graduating senior from Lyons Senior High School, a graduating senior living in the greater Lyons area (80540 zip code) attending a different high school, or home-schooled student from the greater Lyons area (80540 zip code) who embodies the LCF’s mission of improving the quality of life, building a culture of giving, and encouraging positive
change for the greater Lyons area. 2021 Lyons Community Foundation Two-year Study Scholarship. One $2000 scholarship offered by the Lyons Community Foundation will recognize any graduating senior from Lyons Senior High School, graduating senior living in the greater Lyons area (80540 zip code) attending a different high school, or home-schooled student from the greater Lyons area (80540 zip code) who plans to attend a two-year program at college/university, trade school or other technical/vocational training. The scholarship will recognize a student who embodies the LCF’s mission of improving the quality of life, building a culture of giving, and encouraging positive change for the greater Lyons area. Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler Memorial Scholarship. Honoring the memory of businessman Louis Winkler, one $1000 scholarship is available to any graduating senior from Lyons Senior High School, a graduating senior living in the greater Lyons area with an 80540 zip code attending a different high school, or home schooled student from the greater Lyons area with an 80540 zip code who has at least a 3.0 GPA and plans on majoring in business or finance. Janet Orback Memorial Scholarship. Established in 2018, this $500 scholarship honors the memory of lifelong Lyons resident Janet Orback, who along with her husband Continue LCF on Page 13
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Looking forward to a year in Lyons filled with art shows, concerts and fun By Brianna Hoyt Redstone Review LYONS – After all arts events came to a screeching halt in 2020, the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) Hoyt enjoyed bringing back town hall art shows and events in 2021 and is looking forward to what 2022 will bring. Sign up for Town of Lyons eblasts and check www.lyonscolorado.com for more information on community events. The Town of Lyons will be hosting its Winter Wonderland Concert Series on January 8 and 22, and February 13. All concerts will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. with ice skating, weather permitting. The next Town Hall community art show and Lyons Regional Library art show reception will be January 12, 2022 5:30 to 7 p.m. The community is invited to bring their ready to hang wall art to Town Hall between 5 and 7 p.m. January 7. The theme is Free for All, and you can bring up to five pieces of art that you have created. The Lyons Regional Library art show will be Working Duo featuring Jacob Leeuwenburgh and Ann Hall.
Four of the five new public sculptures installed by LAHC in 2021: left to right, Muse of Nature by Jodie Bliss; Future City by Kevin Ginsberg; Inside Out by Anne Shutan; and Farmer’s Moon by Reven Marie Swanson. The LAHC is looking forward to new projects next year including working to qualify Lyons for Colorado Creative Districting. On Monday, December 6, the Board of Trustees voted to budget funds towards the creative districting process. The Colorado Creative District program helps communities increase jobs, income,
and investments in creative places. The goal of becoming a district is to attract artists and creative entrepreneurs to enhance the economic and civic capital of the community. Once Lyons becomes a creative district, the community will have access to marketing resources, program funding, tourism resources, and additional
resources such as grants. The LAHC, along with several Lyons residents, will be working with a consultant next year to guide the town through the process and achieve Creative District status. The process should take approximately eight months and is made possible through town budgeting and a donation from Planet Bluegrass. The LAHC and the committee of private citizens will begin working with a consultant in 2022 and will be releasing communications on how to get involved. The LAHC was able to facilitate many additions to Lyons public art in 2021, including having two Lyons artists, Ryan Sohlden and Hannah Finch Phillips, paint two utility boxes in LaVern Johnson Park. These two boxes are now a part of the Lyons public art collection. If you have not seen these creations, take a walk through the park and see how talented they both are. The LAHC was able to support this project thanks to funding from the Lyons Community Foundation. The LAHC is happy to announce that they received another grant for Creative Outlets from the Lyons Community Foundation and will be releasing a Call to Artists in 2022. Please Continue LAHC on Page 14
The Lyons Labyrinth is always growing and changing By Ken Singer Redstone Review LYONS – The creator of the Lyons Labyrinth prefers to use her nom-deplume, Damaris O’Trand (a.k.a. “the gutter artist” as Singer she calls herself). The ever expanding and ever-changing work lies just off of Highway 7 at the edge of town. The creator, who is also an artist, has some unstated rules about what can be placed there. For example, only natural rocks make up the borders of winding paths. Any painted rocks found there will be deposited in a display of other rocks with colors or words. O’Trand determines
what objects go in the labyrinth with her sense of artistry. Those who know her identity her as an artist and creative in all her endeavors. She walks the labyrinth every day, rain or shine. Her preferred time is just after dawn when shadows fall in ways that accentuate the lines of rocks, trees and bark. Frequently, there are objects people place in the labyrinth that are fine with O’Trand although she removes food and objects she finds offensive. For example, a decorative laser-cut cow skull that appeared a few years ago was taken by someone and mysteriously returned last year. It disappeared earlier this month and likely was taken by someone who forced six bullet cartridges into a tree nearby.
O’Trand plucked the bronze bullet casings from the tree, stating, “There are children who come here and I try to make it safe for children.” It is the same with broken glass. In the past, people would use bottles as mobiles but sometimes others would break them. Sometimes people would leave marijuana or beer as tribute but she removes them. Occasionally, some leave cash but O’Trand will take that as a donation. (She has received about $20 over the years which she puts in tip jars.) The cow skull probably had some value with the carvings but she was philosophical about the loss, explaining that it found its way into the labyrinth, was missing and turned up again, and perhaps will find its way back. O’Trand found the area that would become the labyrinth a year after the flood of 2013. The land was damaged by the flood and she decided to move some of the rocks and trees scattered about. Unlike the nearby trailer park that was devastated in town limits and is now the Lyons Botanical Garden, the future labyrinth was on county land. The county dredged some of the South St. Vrain Creek and placed flat
A laser-cut cow skull has appeared, disappeared, reappeared, and disappeared again at the labyrinth. rocks in several places which allowed passage from the bank to the water. O’Trand placed every rock that lines the pathways and even moved some of the tree limbs, by herself for the most part. A Continue Labyrinth on Page14
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ANALYZE Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count helps maintain bird populations By Mysti Tatro Redstone Review LONGMONT – Audubon’s 122nd Christmas Bird Count started on December 14, 2021 and goes through Wednesday, January 5, 2022. This citizen science program aims to collect data for feathered Tatro critters across the U.S., Canada, and some parts of Latin America. The yearly traditional bird count helps scientists understand where problems are happening in bird populations. You can join in. Not only does this activity help your local flying critters, it is also a great way to get the family together, outdoors, surrounded by the natural beauty of Colorado. Anyone can utilize this data as it is published online. The counts have been recorded by birders since 1900, making this one of the longest-running bird citizen scientists projects in the Western Hemisphere. Prior to 1900, families would get together for Christmas bird hunts, and the team with the highest number of birds afterwards would win. Luckily, Frank Chapman decided to gather his fellow birders for a brand-new tradition, a census that helped local bird populations rather than hindering them. That year, the group recorded 90 species of feathered flyers. Today, birders in a single location have
been able to identify over 500 species. Why do we need data on birds? The data that citizen scientists gather during this threeweek period helps people identify the distribution and abundance of North American birds. This allows scientists and scholars to better understand these species and potentially pinpoint reasons for population changes. For example, a recent study cites Christmas Bird Count data related to West Nile and its effect on North American birds. It finds that species such as the American crow
have declined 45 percent since the arrival of the virus (LaDeau, S., Kilpatrick, A. & Marra, P.) Access to this kind of knowledge can help conservationists aid the species most in need of virus mitigation. By learning more about wildlife, we can better help them. How does one get involved? Visit https://www.audubon.org/conservation/join-christmas-bird-count and join your local count circle. Citizen scientists should be prepared with winter outerwear and binoculars before heading out on your birding day, although you can opt-in to counting birds from your backyard bird feeder. Just last year, citizen scientists in the Longmont birding circle were able to count 88 different species of bird. No matter where you decide to join from, you don’t have to be an expert in bird identification to participate. And if you come across a bird in need during your excursion, call Greenwood at 303-823-8455. During this holiday season, consider adopting a new tradition – helping your local wildlife by observing the dainty flutter of the black-capped chickadee or the brightly colored head tuft of the downy woodpecker with your loved ones. Mysti Tatro is the Communications and Marketing Coordinator at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. For information, call 303-823-8455 or visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org.
Christmas trash can be reduced and recycled By Dawn Weller Redstone Review LYONS – Did you know that during the last two months of the year, Americans create 25 percent more trash? Green your holidays and reduce waste this year by implementing the following suggestions. Give less stuff. Give more items that have meaning. Give experiences (tickets, massage, services, etc.). Give meaningful membership or charitable donations such as foods such as cookies, hot chocolate, etc. in reusable containers. There are alternatives to gift wrap and cards. Most gift wrap cannot be recycled – gift bags are fun, easy, and reusable. Wrap with newspaper, craft paper, comics, maps, posters, calendar pictures, etc. that can be recycled. Repurpose old holiday cards as gift tags and send e-cards. LED lights consume 80 percent less energy and last up to 25 times longer than incandescent – switch this year. Old lights and extension cords can be recycled at
CHARM (the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials) in Boulder. Give and use rechargeable batteries. Alkaline batteries can be recycled at CHARM. Make your gatherings zero waste with reusable dishes and dishware. Decorate with natural materials: gourds, greenery, fruits, etc. Compost your Christmas tree. Remove all ornamentation, tinsel, etc. from trees to be composted. Western Disposal customers with compost service can place their tree out on compost collection day. Trees longer than six feet should be cut in half. Trees can be dropped off for free at the Western Transfer Station at 5880 Butte Mill Rd., Boulder from December 27 to January 30. For more information visit https: // www.ecocycle.org / files / pdfs / Holiday /2021_Eco-Cycle_Holiday_Guide.pdf.
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Run for local office: April 5 Municipal Election LYONS – The Town of Lyons will hold the next regular Municipal Election on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 to elect six trustee seats and our mayor to serve on the Board of Trustees. Each term is for two years. Registered electors 18 years of age or older may be candidates and hold office if they have resided inside Town limits for at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding April 5, 2022. Candidate packets will be available at the Town Clerk’s office at Town Hall on or after January 4, 2022 and nomination petitions may be circulated beginning the same day. The petition must be signed by at least 10 registered electors who reside inside Town limits. The filing deadline for nomination petitions is January 24, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. If an individual is interested in learning more about becoming a candidate, the Lyons Regional Library and the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce held a candidate information forum last month. The forum included expectations of time commitment and the role of a Board member.
Dawn Weller lives with her family in Lyons.
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Bristlecone pines, from windy mountaintops to Lyons gardens By Jessie Berta-Thompson Redstone Review LYONS –Planting a garden is inherently a forward-looking act, something we do for future plants and for future enjoyment by creatures and people. Usually this means dreaming of the tomatoes and sunflowers we’ll get after a few months. Planting a tree is an intention stretching decades, or longer, into the future. This past year at the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens (RMBG), we planted several bristlecone pines (Pinus aristata, Pine family). This species can live 300 to 2000 years, long enough to see an entirely different world in time. The species, also known as the Colorado or Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine, is a member of a group of closely related trees called the foxtail pines. This group also includes the Great Basin or Intermountain bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and the foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana). Some of the oldest known nonclonal organisms on the planet are Great Basin bristlecone pines. One famous example is a tree called Methuselah in the White Mountains of eastern California that’s around 4,800 years old. The Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine grows in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, while the Great Basin bristlecone pine is found in California, Nevada, and Utah. Both species live just below the tree line in rugged alpine environments, where intense weather sculpts the trees into stunning twisty shapes. They can also grow at lower elevations in mixed conifer forests in montane environments, but specimens of both species in more sheltered environments don’t reach the extreme ages of their alpine counterparts. This unexpected pattern – only the worst conditions support the longest life spans – is thought to be explained in part by the fact that under harsh conditions, these trees grow very slowly. This slow growth results in very dense wood, which resists decay and infection better than wood grown faster. Additionally, forest fires are less common in the sparse ecosystem of the alpine, reducing another source of tree mortality. The name bristlecone refers to a small
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bristle on each scale of this tree’s pinecones. The cones are purple when young, then turn brown when mature, after two years. Up close, the needles come in dense bundles of five. These bundles are dotted with white resin, a distinctive feature of the species. The foxtail pine group gets its name because the branches of these species are thickly covered with needles, like a fox’s tail or a bottlebrush. The foxtail pattern develops in part because the needles are rarely shed. Each clump of needles stays on its branch for 10 to 17 years in the bristlecone pine. Ponderosa pine needles, by contrast, drop after three or four years, showing as temporary traces of brown on the trees in fall. While they keep enough needles to be green year-round, healthy conifers shed their leaves and grow new ones, just not on the same annual schedule as deciduous trees. The Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is widely cultivated. Despite growing naturally on the windswept top of the world, it grows well in tamer suburban contexts, too. At the RMBG, we planted two bristlecone pine trees a few feet high in the Montane section of the garden, purchased from the
Green Spot nursery in Longmont. We also planted 10 tiny trees of this species that were donated by the Boulder Valley and Longmont Conservation Districts, left over from their tree seedling program. Partnering with Colorado State Forest Service Nursery in Fort Collins, this program sells affordable small trees, shrubs, and wildflowers to support conservation efforts on private land (currently taking orders for next spring). To see a more mature cultivated version of this tree, there’s a lovely one behind the Lyons Fire Station (part of the Lyons Walking Arboretum), along Railroad Ave. To see the truly spectacular sculpted trees of the wild, groves can be found in the San Juan mountains, in the peaks around South Park, and on Pike’s Peak. As the year ends we’d like to thank all the volunteers and donors who contributed to the gardens in 2021. Many thanks to our regular volunteers for all they do, for the sheer quantity of mulch moved, the giant holes dug for new trees, and their good cheer all year long. In addition to the tremendous gift of volunteer labor, the RMBG is supported through individual donations, supplemented with occasional grants (this year from the Lyons Community Foundation and the Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants group). Thanks to all who gave this year, both our longtime donors and new visitors inspired to help by the growing gardens. We’d also like to thank our treasurer Deirdre Daly, who is stepping down after many years on the RMBG board. She gave the gardens the extraordinary gift of her time, knowledge, and experience from a professional career in nonprofits. She not only managed our finances but also set up the legal and organizational architecture of the RMBG as a nonprofit. She wrote successful grants that have been critical to the gardens’ growth and contributed generously at every stage of its development, with warmth and a love of gardens. Thank you so much. Jessie Berta-Thompson is a member of the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens Board.
High School Jazz Band concert at Planet Bluegrass LYONS – The first-ever jazz band concert at Planet Bluegrass takes place in the Wildflower Pavilion on Wednesday December 15, and Planet is hoping to make it a big deal. Planet Bluegrass is sharing this concert with the Westview Middle School Jazz Band and will bring in a food truck. There will be a bar with both adult- and kid-friendly beverages so bring cash/card to purchase. We really hope to pack the house At 6 p.m. the doors open. FED Food Truck and bar will be on site with food and drinks. At 7 p.m. the music begins. Even though there are two bands, it will be a short show. Enjoy dinner while the kids are performing. Park along the main road; there is no charge for parking or concert attendance.
Ice skating lessons and rink update LYONS – We are waiting for colder temperatures, which still are a long way off, in order to get the outdoor ice rink ready. While the temperatures have been nice and toasty, they don’t help for ice skating. Currently the 10-day forecast shows warm temperatures. When we do get temperatures cold enough and long enough to make ice, the parks and public works staff will work to set up the rink. Thank you for your understanding. When the weather is cold enough, family lessons will be offered for one adult and one child to take together. Go to the town website at https://www.townoflyons.com/recreation.
Dogs on leash LYONS – The Town and the Boulder County Animal Control office remind residents to keep your dog on a leash when walking through town, on public streets and the parks. The off-leash dog park is in Bohn Park. Your dog must also be leashed along the path to the dog park. Thank you.
New RV parking ordinance LYONS – Effective January 18, 2022, recreation vehicles, watercraft and trailers in excess of 20 ft. in length excluding hitches and tongues may not be parked on town streets or right-of-way for periods longer than 72 hours.
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was finalized last month. The contractor will begin preparations, including moving a construction trailer onto the property. Expect social trails in the area to be fenced off as equipmend moves into the area.
Stone Cup holiday hours LYONS – The Stone Cup will be closed over the holidays, from December 20. to January 5. It will reopen on January 6, with the same schedule, Thursday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sam Tallent won’t be having the Christmas Eve service again this year. It is too risky with current Covid conditions.
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Travels with Redstone Despite countless delays and long lines due to Covid, Kim Freymiller, Susan de Castro McCann,and Barb Kufs (L to R above left) travelled to Egypt. Here they are standing at the base of Great Pyramid of Giza. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has traveled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com.
to mobilize the week of December 6 by placing fencing along the perimeter abutting Lyons Valley Park, preparing for electricity to the site and placing the construction trailer. Grading of the site and installation of public improvements will be the first phase. Moss Rock Development hosted an open house to show its initial designs of the proposed hotel on Main Street, where
The LACC will ring in 2022 with updates from local businesses By Emily Crane Redstone Review LYONS – Cornerstone Membership The Lyons Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to announce that two of our local businesses are now Cornerstone Members of the Chamber of Commerce: Cemex and Oscar Blues Brewery. Cornerstone Members demonstrate leadership and a commitment to building a prosperous community, and we are thrilled that they play such a vital role in fostering community within the Town of Lyons. Interested in learning more about how the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce may support your business, work from home life, or individual endeavors via membership? Visit lyonschamber.org or email Admin@lyonschamber.org January Social Once we’ve finished decking the halls, Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to host the first social event of the New Year at Oscar Blue Brewing, this January, date and time forthcoming. Who is invited? Everyone. The event is open to business and individual members, and non-members, and we would like to extend a special invitation to the work-from-home community within Lyons. Come enjoy a beverage while meeting your community members and business leaders.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the most up to date invitation. Let It Glow competition extended We have extended the 2021 Let It Glow Competition Deadline to this Saturday December 18. What is this event? There’s nothing better than seeing thousands of twinkling lights on houses all over town on a cold, frosty night. Join us this holiday season by beautifying your home in our annual Let it Glow Competition. If your business or home is already “lit” or about to be enter this free local competition for a chance to win big. Contact the Lyons Chamber website for more information on how to enter or email Admin@LyonsChamber.Org. Businesses could win $500 and a free ad space. Homes could win prize packages for Best in Show, Runner Up and Clark Griswold (most lights) including $100 to your favorite local business. So deck the halls, deck your homes, deck your businesses with lights by Sunday December 19. It’s free to enter. Need social media exposure? Want to get your businesses name out there? We are looking for sponsors for this competition. Sponsorships start at $100. Email Admin@LyonsChamber.Org. Emily Crane is the Executive Director of the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce
Lyons Comprehensive Plan, help Lyons thrive LYONS – Why do you like living in Lyons? How easy is it to get around Lyons? What would you like to see improved in the near future? The Town of Lyons is updating the Comprehensive Plan with the help of Clarion Associates. Your input and opinions will help to guide LyonsThrive into the future, as an update to the Lyons Comprehensive Plan. Visit LyonsThrive.com for information and to share what you would improve, change or what you love about Lyons. Share what you like and what you would improve via your input on the idea map. Continue Briefs on Page 14
there was also a station that discussed the economic impact on the community and availability to answer questions. A good turnout showed up and Moss Rock is trying to respond to the feedback. Staff continue to talk and meet with the development team in preparation for the application to go to the Planning Commission in December and the Board of Trustees in January. See the story on page 4 by Ken Singer.
Fairness Continued from Page 7 reasons I like the Christmas and holiday season is that people start to focus on connection. We buy gifts for each other, and we remember those who have less than we do. We donate to food pantries, and the homeless, and churches and non-profits. We give away toys for kids and food for animals and money to the UPS person and a goat for a family in Africa. We remember, at this time of year, that there is no real difference between us and anyone else. We stop ignoring the pain of how unfair the world is, and instead open our hearts and let the world in. There is no way that middle class America can ever give away enough to make up for what we have taken from the world, to make it fair that we have and others do not. But we can remember that we are all basically the same, with the same wants and needs, and do something to move towards connecting to our fellow beings on the planet. So instead of constantly burrowing down further into our unfair abundance and separateness, every year we are pulled up, out of ourselves, into our connection to each other and the rest of this amazing planet we live on. Which makes the world a little less unfair, which may be the best we can hope for.
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Dave tirelessly helped to provide support and friendship to her neighbors whose homes and lives were destroyed in the 2013 floods, as well as being stewards of the Lyons Cemetery for over 15 years. Recipient of the Janet Orback Memorial Scholarship must be a graduating senior from Lyons Senior High School with a minimum 2.5
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GPA, and be an active participant in the community, and show a commitment to caring for the environment. Lyons area homeschooled students who participate in Lyons Senior High School through sports and/or academics are also eligible. Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship. Gerald Boland, a 54-year resident of Lyons who taught in Lyons Schools for 31 years, was a coach, Boy Scout Leader, and
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mentor who had a passion for learning and the outdoors. One $1000 scholarship in his name will be awarded to a graduating senior who shares these passions. Eligible students must attend Lyons Senior High School and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship in Memory of Steve Ralston. Created in 2009 to honor the memory of Lyons resident, businessman, and community supporter Steve Ralston, this $1000 scholarship will be awarded to a graduating senior who best expresses a passion for learning and sharing interests, skills and joyful life experiences with the community. Eligible students include any graduating senior from Lyons Senior High School, a graduating senior living in the greater Lyons area with an 80540 zip code attending a different high school, or home-schooled student from the greater Lyons area with an 80540 zip code. All applications must be received by March 11, 2022 at 3 p.m. Applications may be returned to the counseling office of Lyons Senior High School or mailed to
the Lyons Community Foundation, PO Box 546, Lyons CO, 80540. The scholarships may be used at any accredited post-secondary education program in the country or as otherwise noted for each scholarship. Students must be accepted to or have acceptance pending at their prospective school(s) when they submit their applications. Questions about the scholarships can be directed by email to scholarship@lyonscf.org. All applications are reviewed and kept confidential by a committee consisting of Lyons area community members.
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holes in the floors and ceilings, walls missing, exposed wiring, insulation and debris strewn everywhere.” The original building was located on a different street. It was partially dismantled and moved to Main Street – which successively altered more and more of its original interior. The Review will be following the progress of the hotel with the PCDC and BOT. Completion of the building is expected to be in 2024.
Josie Wratten has been an advisory board member of the Lyons Community Foundation since 2018. She moved to the US from the UK in 2001, living in San Francisco and Colorado. Her family moved to Lyons in 2014 and have loved the community and small town atmosphere ever since. This is Wratten’s last year with LCF and the LCF group thanks her for her service to the Lyons Community Foundation. Also the LCF is looking for a new scholarship chair.
FINALLY! YOUR OPPORTUNITY HAS ARRIVED TO OWN A QUALITY, GREEN BUILT HOME BY MARKEL HOMES IN ONE OF LYONS’ MOST DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOODS! Beautiful 2-story 3 bedroom, 3 bath, w/ 3-car tandem garage ideally located at end of a cul-de-sac in Lyons Valley Park — one of just a small handful backing to a neighborhood park. Spectacular view of Steamboat Mountain and the Lyons Valley foothills! Home is in impeccable condition featuring a great-room floor plan open to kitchen with maple cabinetry and flooring, tile countertops, and SS fridge. Full basement ready for your finishing ideas! Radon mitigation, new furnace and whole house humidifier 2019, new carpet 2018. Gorgeous low-maintenance landscaping. Energy-efficient 2x6 construction. Super convenient location within a short distance to town parks & trails, river parks, middle and senior high schools; numerous biking trails nearby. Mature trees shade the large back deck in the summer, winter sun brightens the interior family room and kitchen. A gem! 118 Estes Court / $899,900
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builder carefully reviewed the interior of the hotel for any items of historical significance or value. Unfortunately, there was nothing. The flooring that might have been original to the building was significantly damaged; most original flooring had been removed. No original fixtures remained. No original doors or windows remained. The walls had mainly been altered or ripped out. The hotel itself was in grave disrepair when we purchased it –
LEAF Continued from Page 5 day, December 15 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the entire community is invited to join us outside, where Santa Claus and his reindeer will greet everyone and visit with adults and children alike. We’ll also have gorgeous cookies, compliments of Laura Levy, Coldwell Banker Realty, and hot chocolate, compliments of Calvary Foothills, and Christmas carols, thanks to the choir at Lyons Senior High School. Our whole team hopes you’ll stop by to enjoy the afternoon with us. It’s a great community-building event, and the perfect opportunity to ensure Santa receives those Christmas wishes. Wrapping up LEAF’s holiday happenings is the Holiday Giving Tree. Well over 100 LEAF participants signed up to receive gifts this year. If you are a gift-giver, please remember to drop your wrapped gifts off at Pizza Bar 66 by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 15. Our LEAF Holiday elves will get to work and organize all of the gifts for special delivery on Saturday, December 18. All of these extra and special holiday activities take place in addition to the core wraparound human services that LEAF delivers year-round for the greater Lyons area and surrounding mountain communities. Our Community Food Pantry and Meals on Wheels teams ensure that nobody here goes hungry. Basic Needs and Resource Matching is available when an unexpected financial emergency threatens to derail a household’s stability. Through our Mental Wellness and Addiction Recovery program, community members can receive no-cost, accessible mental health care right in Lyons. And finally, our Lyons
Volunteers work year-round, too, keeping Lyons beautiful and healthy. LEAF does so much, and we rely on the support of the community to make it possible. Next year will present many challenges and opportunities for our community and for LEAF. We want to be prepared for every one of them. If you haven’t yet made your year-end gift to LEAF, there’s still time to do so. You can send a check to LEAF at PO Box 350, Lyons, CO 80540 or give via our website at leaflyons.org. From our Board of Directors, 100 plus volunteers, and our guests and participants, LEAF wishes you the happiest holidays this year, 2022, here we come!
Sally King’s 2021 annual print: Duet, John and Sal – Praise the Golden Sphere, with Redtail and Beaver blessings. Happy Holidays Lyons. Love, Sally King
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WHAT’S COOKIN’ Granola, a breakfast, a tradition and a gift By Barbara Shark Redstone Review LYONS – One constant in our life is a breakfast of granola, yogurt and fruit. We take homemade granola on our travels to art fairs and on camping trips. My husband in particular even orders granola for Shark breakfast in restaurants. I don’t go that far as I like something different every now and then such as pancakes or eggs and bacon. (Those cravings are satisfied by preparing breakfast for supper.) My current recipe includes nuts, seeds, coconut and oats. Make it without oats for friends preferring a grainfree diet. I chop the nuts in my Cuisinart, almonds first as they are the hardest. Then in go walnuts, cashews, pecans and hazelnuts. I dump these into a large bowl to which I add seeds, seasonings, sweetener and oil. Adapt the recipe to suit your taste, adding or subtracting varieties of nuts and seeds. And homemade granola makes a wonderful holiday gift. Here’s the recipe: In the Cuisinart chop with several pulses, or chop by hand: one and a half cups raw almonds, one and a half
cups raw cashews, one and a half cups other raw nuts such as walnuts, pecans, or hazelnuts. You’ll end up with various sized pieces from crumbs to chunks. Don’t overprocess. Place in a large bowl with one cup pepitas, three fourths cup sunflower seeds, one fourth cup sesame seeds and/or flax seeds. Then add three cups rolled oats. Stir in one cup unsweetened coconut flakes and one half cup shredded, unsweetened coconut, one third cup
cacao nibs, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon ground ginger, one teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg, (about half of a nut) and a big pinch of salt. Over all this, pour one half cup honey or maple syrup, and one half cup safflower oil or your favorite flavorless vegetable oil. (Though I think olive oil would bring a fruity deliciousness.) Stir until well combined and moistened. Spread in a high-sided baking pan, 9 by 13 inches, and roast in a 350 degrees oven for 20 minutes. Stir up and continue roasting, about 20 minutes, until browned, toasty and fragrant. Cool, then store in a jar or tin. This makes enough for a week of one half cup servings for two or several quart jars for gifts. Barbara Shark is an artist and author of How I Learned to Cook, an Artist’s Life. She lives near Lyons, Colorado. For more recipes, read her blog at www.howilearnedtocookanartistslife.blog.
Holiday side dishes – three veggie alternatives By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Here are three easy and delicious side dish ideas for your holiday table: Artichokes in Wine Sauce, Hearts of Palm Ceviche, and Vegetables Anglaise.
Artichokes in Wine Sauce This is a tender and buttery vegetarian side dish made with artichoke bottoms. If you are vegan, you can substitute sunflower oil, which imparts a nutty taste. This recipe is an interpretation of a recipe from the book Neue Cuisine by Kurt Gutenbrunner. And if you want to avoid a lot of work and staining of your hands, I recommend using canned or frozen artichoke bottoms. Serves six to eight; preparation time 15 to 40 minutes, depending on the type of artichoke bottom you use; easy.
Labyrinth Continued from Page 9 worker using an excavator for dredging asked her if she could use more rocks and obliged her with a large pile, some of which became the pathway. One thing O’Trand is rather firm about is not permitting any paint to trees. She has sanded wood that people have inscribed as messages as well as graffiti. She sometimes finds beads or objects that are fine for the labyrinth but not in the place that someone put them. She is also tolerant of people taking what she or others have put there. She wrote a letter to then Mayor John O’Brien asking to be able to create a labyrinth, he was amenable, and she just began her work. It became her third labyrinth. Her first was at John and Sally King’s property on Apple Valley Rd. It was taken down for a wedding. Her next project was near the Clarifier and the town decided to put in a kayak launch so she was on to the third and current location. The labyrinth, in its earlier day, was part of a trail along the creek. Ownership is probably Boulder County’s but O’Trand believes the land will be eventually be annexed by the town. There is still surrounding land that she considers to be part of the labyrinth but is so far undeveloped. She found a table and a couple of plastic chairs and put them in a sunny spot by the creek so people could rest and enjoy the view.
11 artichoke hearts, frozen, canned, or fresh 1/2 mild onion, thinly sliced 1/2 leek, quartered and chopped 1 carrot, scraped and sliced thinly Clarified butter, ghee or sunflower oil 1 C white wine 1 C chicken or vegetable stock 1 lemon, cut in half Salt and pepper • Using a serrated knife, remove the end / handle of the artichoke and saw the top of the artichoke off. • Remove all the leaves around the artichoke, turning it in your hand as you trim. If you have a nice manicure, wear a pair of latex gloves while handling these. • When you reach the fur or “choke” on the artichoke, scoop out these soft furry bits with a paring knife or a spoon, . • Then run a paring knife around the edge of the artichoke, removing all green bits and remaining leaves. Remove the bottom stump so that it is flush or even with the rounded bottom of the artichoke heart. If you are using frozen or canned artichokes, skip previous steps and start here. • Rub the room temperature artichoke hearts all over with lemon. • Heat a medium sized sauté pan with three tablespoons of clarified butter, ghee, or sunflower oil. Sauté the onion and leek until lightly golden. Add the carrots and let them sweat with the onion-leek mixAnd sometimes, O’Trand sits in one of those chairs to reflect on her efforts, but she always returns to walk the labyrinth the next day to add or change some objects there. Ken Singer and his wife Sandy Spellman moved to Lyons 10 weeks before the flood. They are both retired clinical social workers and live near Lyons. Singer loves to write about people and events around Lyons.
The totem pole at the center of O’Trand’s labyrinth
ture for several minutes. • Add the wine and let cook for one minute. Adjust seasonings. Add the stock to the pan and lay the artichokes over the top of the vegetable mixture.
• Cover tightly and cook until fork tines in the upside-down artichoke bottom remain, about 10 minutes. Serve with sauce and vegetables ladled over top.
1/4 small habanero pepper, seeded and minced 1 T chopped fresh cilantro Juice of 1 to 2 limes 1 t salt Pepper • Combine first five ingredients in a small bowl. Drizzle with lime juice and add salt. Toss to combine. • Season with pepper, if desired and serve immediately. Enjoy alone or served with popcorn, plantain chips or tortilla chips. Vegetables Anglaise Deceptively simple, quick and tasty, these hearty vegetables go well alongside a turkey or chicken dinner. Serves as many as you wish; preparation time 10 minutes; cooking time 35 mins.; easy.
Hearts of Palm Ceviche This quick-to-make vegan recipe for hearts of palm ceviche cuts through all the holiday fat while satisfying the comfort food drive. It’s a recipe taken from the Blue Zones Kitchen cookbook, by Dan Buettner. Serves three; preparation time 10 minutes; easy. 1 C hearts of palm, sliced into small rounds. Use fresh, canned or jarred 1 small, sweet onion, quartered and sliced 2 small sweet red peppers cut into 1/4 inch dice
• Equal amounts of carrots, turnips, cauliflower, green beans and boiled potatoes cut in the same size and cooked until tender in salted water. Note: add the cauliflower about 10 minutes before the other vegetables will be done. .
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LAHC Continued from Page 9 follow the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission on Facebook and sign up for the monthly newsletter, Kaleidoscope for more information. The LAHC successfully installed five new public sculptures in town in 2021. Each of these are a part of the heARTS of LYONS collection and will be on display for two years. The new installations include: Muse of Nature by Jodie Bliss, Future City by Kevin Ginsberg, Inside Out by Anne Shutan, All Together Now by Jonathan Corson Rikert, and Farmer’s Moon by Reven Marie Swanson. All Together Now was partially sponsored by St. Vrain Market and Farmer’s Moon was fully sponsored by Smokin’ Daves BBQ and Taphouse. The LAHC is able to support heARTS of LYONS through funding from the Lyons Community Foundation, sponsorships, and public donations. The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission will be releasing a Call to Artists for new installations in 2022. The LAHC meets every second Tuesday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Lyons Regional Library. Brianna Hoyt earned degrees in anthropology and history from the University of Denver and worked as a freelance writer for five years. She started working for the Town of Lyons in February 2020 as Lyons’ Main Street Manager.
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Fire ban LYONS – Stage 1 fire restrictions are still in place. As a reminder, Stage 1 fire restrictions went into effect on November 30 for unincorporated areas of western Boulder County, which includes Lyons.
Holiday Parade of Lights LYONS – You did it Lyons! You showed up with all of your talent and creativity and made this year's Holiday Parade of Lights extra special. We appreciate how you all pivoted and understood changes to the route, the fire ban, a new locale for the choirs to sing and much more. Thanks to everyone who entered and as always those who come out and enjoy the community. Now without further ado (the envelope please) the winners are: Overall Parade Winner: Dancing Lights of the Arctic by Mayama and Laura Levy Group-Coldwell Banker Best Use of Lights: Luminaria, Our Lyons Skies in Winter Best Representation of Theme: Lyons Communications Marching Division: Lyons Polar Bear Club Motorized Division: Lyons Fire Protection District Band: Lyons MS/HS Band Youth: Freedom Ranch Horse: Hippotherapy Float: River Rats Other: LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund)